Luke 11:29 ¶ As the crowds were increasing, He began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.
Luke 11:30 "For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
Luke 11:31 "The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Luke 11:32 "The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Luke 11:33 ¶ "No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
Luke 11:34 "The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
Luke 11:35 "Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.
Luke 11:36 "If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays."
Luke 11:37 ¶ Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table.
Luke 11:38 When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal.
Luke 11:39 But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness.
Luke 11:40 "You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also?
Luke 11:41 "But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you.
Luke 11:42 ¶ "But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Luke 11:43 "Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places.
Luke 11:44 "Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it."
Luke 11:45 ¶ One of the lawyers *said to Him in reply, "Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too."
Luke 11:46 But He said, "Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:47 "Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.
Luke 11:48 "So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.